Older patients' attitudes towards and experiences of patient-physician end-of-life communication: A secondary analysis of interviews from British, Dutch and Belgian patients

BMC Palliative Care

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Evans, Natalie ^a   Pasman, H Roeline W ^a   Payne, Sheila A ^b   Seymour, Jane ^c   Pleschberger, Sabine ^d   Deschepper, Reginald ^e   Onwuteaka Philipsen, Bregje D ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^e VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Communication; Decision making; End of life; Older patients; Palliative; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE;

EID: 84869877436     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472684X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-684X-11-24     Document Type: Article

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